4A Games has opened PS5 pre-orders for Metro 2039 on the PS Store, with the base version priced at £59.99 / $69.99 and a Deluxe Edition costing £25 / $30 more. The Deluxe Edition includes a digital art book, soundtrack, a Specialist Pack with early item unlocks, and a post-launch story expansion, though the store listing gives no further details on that DLC. The game launches on 4th February 2027.
Sony has revealed the God of War Laufey Collector Box, priced at $149.99 / €149.99 / £129.99, which includes a statue, a 51-card Oracle Deck and a mini artbook but not a copy of the game. It launches on February 16 alongside the game and is available for pre-order now on the PlayStation Direct store. The game itself is sold separately as a Standard Edition and a Digital Deluxe Edition.
Ten new games launch on Xbox today, October 14, including Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, a retro-style FPS sequel with a branching single-player campaign on Series X|S, PC and Cloud. Also out are The Witch's Bakery, a cosy narrative RPG set in modern Paris, and Ratatan, a rhythm roguelike action game with online co-op for up to 4 players on Series X|S. Other releases include Cleaning Simulator, My Recycling Center 2 and YAR: Forgotten Throne.
CD Projekt Red has confirmed that The Witcher 3 Remastered's Switch 2 patch is officially "on the way." After the remastered version launched on Sept. 29, all platforms except the Nintendo Switch 2 received fixes, leaving Switch 2 users waiting.
Nintendo has added three more Game Boy Advance games to its Nintendo Classics library on Switch Online: Metal Slug Advance, Monster Rancher Advance and Kururin Paradise, all available now via the GBA app on Switch and Switch 2. Kururin Paradise had only ever been officially released in Japan, making this its first official Western release after 24 years. The addition brings the total number of GBA games on Switch Online in the West to 32.
Planet Zoo 2 is now available as the official sequel to Planet Zoo, adding fully aquatic species and flying birds for the first time, with freshwater or saltwater tanks and customizable aviaries built from fences, posts, and dynamic netting. It also extends conservation beyond the zoo, letting players take on global projects and release animals into freely planned wildlife reserves. The game offers career, franchise, and sandbox modes, cross-platform sharing through the Frontier Workshop, and nine scenery themes made up of four new ones and five returning classics.
Clear River Games announced that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on Feb. 4, 2027. The retro-style beat 'em up is developed by Bitmap Bureau and will get a physical release on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X, plus digital versions on those platforms, PS4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. It features four playable characters — He-Man, Teela, Man-at-Arms, and She-Ra — and the Steam page lists 13 levels.
The Trophy list for Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has surfaced online ahead of launch, and one Trophy requires 100% completion, meaning players must gather every weapon, fill out Rose's tarot deck, and find all health and mana upgrades. Another Trophy asks players to beat the game in less than four hours. The first 2D Castlevania game in a long time launches on 15th October, 2026 for PS5.
Publisher Clear River Games has announced that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will launch on PS5 and PS4 on 4th February, 2027. The side-scrolling brawler is in development at Bitmap Bureau and supports up to four-player co-op across a 13-stage campaign.
WW2 real-time strategy game Battleplan launches on Steam today, with orders issued by drawing on a large pseudo-paper map based on geographical survey data while thousands of troops, tanks, planes and artillery try to turn those doodles into conquered territory. Players don't control units directly, but can draw curved breakthroughs, planned withdrawals, preparatory bombing runs, reconnaissance and counterattacks, and organise divisions, corps and companies before redrawing frontlines. The launch version includes a single-player campaign of 11 historical missions from the D-Day landings to Operation Varsity on the Western Front, plus tutorial levels, and developer Foolish Mortals Games says it plans post-launch system updates, gameplay improvements and additional theatres of war.
Twin Swans has announced the voice cast for Hunter's Moon, a first-person historical narrative folk-horror game featuring 48 actors across more than 100 roles. The fully voiced story follows Lilith Thorne, an accused "witch" pursued by the Witchfinder General over the night of the Hunter's Moon. The game is due out for PS5 on October 26.
Squadron 42, the singleplayer spinoff from Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, now has a Steam page listing a planned launch in the second quarter of 2027, between early April and the end of June. A new trailer shows the player as a rookie in the UEE Navy and lists cameos including Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Andy Serkis and Henry Cavill. The game is now wishlistable.
Push Square rounds up the 30+ games launching on PS5 from 12th to 18th October, including Planet Zoo 2 on 13th October and Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on 15th October. Other highlights this week include Valor Mortis, The Witch's Bakery, Ratatan, Tales of Eternia: Remastered, and two Toy Story re-releases.
EA has announced Wing Commander 3: 30th Anniversary Edition, featuring fully restored FMV sequences taken from the original tapes. The new version will also include a frame rate boost of up to 60 frames per second, an enhancement patch made with the Wing Commander fan community, and "Kilrathi Saga integration." The original 1994 release presented its two hours of FMV in 240p and heavily compressed, and unlike its 1996 sequel, never received an improved video re-release.
A group of veteran Fallout 4 modders have added a new town called Detour to the wasteland, positioned as a new quest hub that will grow over time. It features over a dozen voiced characters with more than 600 lines of dialogue, plus shops, room rentals, a purchasable house, a ghoul sheriff, a mayor and a thief named Randy. Playing it requires Fallout 4's Nuka World DLC, with an optional patch for the Reputation mod.
Cloud Imperium Games' Star Citizen spin-off single-player game Squadron 42 has launched its Steam store page. Players join the UEE Navy as a recruit for a cinematic single-player space adventure, living and fighting alongside an all-star crew. The story spans from fighter cockpits to capital ships, space stations to frontier outposts, with rank promotions earned through battle and key choices.
At a retrospective panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, EA producer Jim Vessella announced a 30th anniversary remaster of Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger. He said master tapes from the game's production have been unearthed and that the remaster will clean up video compression, run at 60FPS, add post-release community enhancements, and include "the Kilrathi Saga," suggesting all three of the initial trilogy. The game's live action sequences feature performances from Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, Tim Curry and others.
Enchanted Pumpkin Co. has revealed The Christmas Bakeshop, a bakery shop simulator set in a touristic mountain village where players supply festive breads, pastries, and sweet treats. The game features a dynamic bakeshop rating (45% product variety, 33% decoration, 22% cleanliness), 60 unlockable recipes, staff hiring, loans, advertising campaigns, and bill management, with up to 12 awards to earn. It is coming to Steam.
Alnutmob's arcade-style single-player cooking game Burger Smash gets a free demo on October 12 at 12:00 PM EEST as part of Steam Cooking Fest, covering the first 5 levels with the tech tree included. Players plan kitchen layouts, grill burgers and keep orders flowing under pressure, unlocking playable characters with their own perks between shifts. The game is coming to PC via Steam with single-player and full Xbox controller support, and a full release is planned for January 2027.
Silver Pines, the search-action survival horror, is out now on PS5
Cloud Imperium Games announced on 10th October that Squadron 42, the single-player spin-off of Star Citizen, is now available to wishlist on Steam ahead of a planned Q2 2027 release, alongside a new trailer. Set in the year 2945, the game casts players as a rookie in the UEE Navy aboard a capital ship, mixing space combat, ground operations and stealth sections, with full performance capture from a cast including Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman and Henry Cavill. It has been in development for over a decade and has slipped repeatedly, most recently to Q2 2027, which studio boss Chris Roberts attributed to avoiding competition with GTA 6.
Air Combat Legends is a single-player retro-inspired combat flight sim set in an alternate 1990 Cold War conflict, inspired by classic PC flight sims like F-29 Retaliator and F-16 Combat Pilot. Its main focus is a dynamic procedural campaign where you recon the battlefield, plan the mission, pick your pilot and aircraft, then fly it yourself, with permanent pilot losses and aircraft suited to different jobs. It is coming to PC via Steam with a release date TBA, and an announcement trailer is out with wishlisting open.
Squadron 42 has a Steam page https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/squadron-42-has-a-steam-page/
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Cloud Imperium Games released a new cinematic trailer for Squadron 42, the single-player spinoff of Star Citizen, and opened Steam wishlists alongside a full cast reveal. The game has been in development for 12 years under Chris Roberts and features Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson and Henry Cavill, with performance capture woven into gameplay. The trailer showed first-person sections, platforming and puzzles, ship customization, a hacking mini-game and narrative choices; CIG delayed the game to Q2 2027 in August to avoid GTA 6's attention.
Cloud Imperium Games released a new trailer for Squadron 42, the single-player spinoff of Star Citizen, and revealed a large cast. The game is now available to wishlist on Steam ahead of a planned Q2 2027 release.
Push Square rounds up the 30+ games launching on PS5 from 12th to 18th October, including Castlevania: Belmont's Curse on 15th October and Planet Zoo 2 on 13th October. Other highlights include Valor Mortis, The Witch's Bakery, Ratatan, Tales of Eternia: Remastered, and two Toy Story re-releases.
Hangar 13 released a new Steam update for Mafia 3: Definitive Edition to mark the game's 10th anniversary. The patch improves mission progress, NPC behaviour, and achievement tracking, fixing spots where players got stuck in missions like "Get Enzo Conti" and "Kill Tommy Marcano," plus some mid-mission crashes. Characters like Alcee and Father James no longer freak out mid-mission.
BAFTA-winning studio Sumo Digital announced that Spider Spy: Agent 8 will launch on February 11, 2027. Players control Agent 8, a tiny robotic spider built by British intelligence agency S.A.F.E, sneaking through a retro-futuristic 1970s spy world with tools such as a cutting torch and web grapple to stop the villainous S.I.N. The game features wall-and-ceiling crawling, environmental puzzles, and collectibles that reward replaying levels.
Sucker Punch has released a roughly 1.2GB patch 2.07 for last week's Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, fixing bugs that caused lost or blocked progress in Most Wanted and a black screen issue after certain missions in Echoes of Sekigahara. Issues preventing certain content from being marked complete were also resolved, along with various other bug and crash fixes.
CD Projekt Red has released The Witcher 3 Remastered patch 5.01 on PS5, delivering performance improvements and fixes for various technical issues. The update adjusts frame rate limits across graphics modes on the base PS5, adds Bloom, Light Shafts, and Depth of Field options to the graphics menu, and fixes settings resetting on every launch. It also addresses gameplay and UI issues, including automatic blade oils, dodge delay, and skill tooltips.
CD Projekt Red says it is working on an update for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered that will bring closer parity with other versions, including the same global changes, and improve Switch 2-specific aspects such as image clarity and sharpness. After the remaster launched on multiple platforms last week, players reported "blurry" visuals on Switch 2, and CDPR said it was also looking to address "bloom effect" issues across all platforms. More information is expected in the following days.
Daedalic Entertainment and developer gameXcite have released the free Roguelite mode "Q's Trials" for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown, alongside the second DLC "Section 31." The mode is available to all base game owners, while the DLC can be purchased separately or through the expansion pass, adding the U.S.S. Section 31 ship and three exclusive heroes. The content is now available on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Order of the Sinking Star is available today on PS5 ✨
The Road of Dust and Sorrow will launch on December 3 for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam, publisher Silver Lining Interactive and developer Painted Black Games announced. The story-driven pixel art survival horror game is inspired by '90s classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, following Katherine and her daughter Ava as they search for safety in a fallen world.
CD Projekt Red has released Patch 5.01 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, improving bloom along with tone mapping, character lighting, ray tracing, and path tracing. The patch also fixes PC-specific GPU bugs, including enabling unsupported graphics settings, the game selecting the wrong GPU, DLSS or XeSS being applied on unsupported GPUs, and the GTAO Quality setting resetting after restart. Gameplay fixes cover ladder interaction animations, Geralt colliding with dead enemies on Aard finishers, Vesemir repeating lines after multiple Quen uses, delayed dodging, and stamina drain when sprinting and dodging simultaneously.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation revealed at its New York Comic Con panel that Critical Role performer Marisha Ray is voicing "Polydroid Shiva," a version of the summon who appears to announce a snowboarding minigame. Matt Mercer, who voices Vincent Valentine, said Shiva is Ray's favorite summon in the whole series. The game releases on April 8, 2027.
Mafia III - PlayStation 5 & XBOX Series X|S Launch Trailer (free upgrade for existing owners of Mafia III: Definitive Edition & Mafia: The Omertà Collection) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpys78hUE5E
Mafia 3 has received a free 60FPS upgrade on Xbox Series X|S, available now for digital owners who may need to search for the Xbox Series X|S version manually on the Xbox Store. Real-time cinematics play at 60FPS while some pre-rendered ones remain at 30FPS, and the patch also addresses Trophy and Achievement tracking, story mission progression, and visual consistency issues. There's no word yet on whether Mafia 2 will get the same treatment.
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